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"George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters."
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"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."
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